Wanderlust

<p><strong>First Place Winner of Best Novel in the Delaware Press Association Professional Communications Contest 2022!</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Kate Ketchum</strong> is inflicted with the disease of desire. Impassioned with fantasies of a singing career and traveling the world she abandons her generations-old family tradition working at the declining Owl & Shamrock shoe factory. Leaving the stage of the local pub she's graced for years Kate pursues her music education when a surprising college scholarship to the University of Connecticut provides her escape route.</p><p><br></p><p>Enter <strong>Michael James</strong>. Back from two tours in Vietnam with haunts and secrets he's loath to share he rejects his father's Harvard legacy and family business and heads to UConn. </p><p><br></p><p><em>Wanderlust</em> captures the college campus life where Kate and Michael's worlds collide in 1968 against the backdrop of the Vietnam war--passionate times of change hippies and history. Disappointments distractions and devastation U-turns misfortunes and the fast lane lure each of the characters to unexpected destinations--from an institution for disabled youth to a concert in Paris to the bustling streets of Bangkok. Will their differing passions and history heal them or tear them apart?</p>